| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7277786 |
Chassis-supported secondary braking system or emergency braking system |
October 2, 2007 |
| A method for controlling a braking system of a vehicle is described, in which the braking system has at least a first control unit for controlling a first braking force on at least one wheel brake of a wheel of the vehicle, and an accumulator for receiving a pressurized medium, the m |
| 7232006 |
Clutch for steer-by-wire steering system |
June 19, 2007 |
| A steer-by-wire steering system has a steering wheel actuator and a braking device that acts on the steering column. The braking device is activated when the vehicle steering wheel is to be blocked or at least sharply braked, such as when the steering stop is reached or a wheel goes |
| 7140465 |
Coupling for a steer-by-wire steering system |
November 28, 2006 |
| A steer-by-wire steering system is proposed, having a steering wheel actuator and a braking device that acts on the steering column (3). The braking device is activated when the vehicle steering wheel is to be blocked or at least sharply braked, such as when the steering stop is reac |
| 6871127 |
Method for controlling a steer-by-wire system |
March 22, 2005 |
| A device for controlling a steer-by-wire steering system in a vehicle, in which redundantly generated sensor signals for regulating a steering motor and for a feedback actuator that transfers the restoring torques from the road to the driver via the steering wheel are received by a contr |
| 6820220 |
Control unit for controlling safety-critical applications |
November 16, 2004 |
| A control unit, for controlling safety-critical applications, includes a microcomputer, a monitoring unit (check unit), and peripheral circuits (input/output), and in which, to improve the reliability of the error detection for such control units, and to expand the detection to addit |
| 6756890 |
Method and apparatus for stabilizing a vehicle in the presence of a tilt tendency |
June 29, 2004 |
| A method and apparatus for stabilizing a vehicle in the presence of a tilt tendency are described. For this purpose, for at least one wheel, a variable quantitatively describing a wheel behavior of at least one wheel is determined. At least as a function of the variable that quantitative |
| 6659253 |
Method for operating a clutch and control device for implementing the method |
December 9, 2003 |
| A method for operating a clutch (10), whose clutch slip (s) is adjusted to a setpoint value (s0) with the aid of a manipulated variable, should allow a clutch to be controlled in a particularly reliable and stable manner. To this end, the present invention provides for a slip value only |
| 6640923 |
Method for steering a vehicle using a power-assisted steering system |
November 4, 2003 |
| A method for steering a vehicle and a steering system are provided, in which a variable torque support of the driver's steering wish and intervention in the position of the steered wheels triggered by a driving dynamics regulator are implementable without mutually interfering with one |
| 6446490 |
Method and device for determining the pressure in brake systems |
September 10, 2002 |
| Device and method for determining a wheel braking pressure and/or an admission pressure in a braking system in which pressure medium is introduced from a reservoir for the pressure medium having an admission pressure into a wheel brake through at least one shutoff device for inlet an |
| 6382344 |
Steering system for a vehicle |
May 7, 2002 |
| A steering system for a vehicle, having a steering wheel, a steering gear and a steering module, disposed between them, for superimposed steering engagement by a controlled electric motor. The electric motor has an input shaft connected to the steering wheel and an output shaft connected |
| 6370471 |
Automatic following guidance system for motor vehicles |
April 9, 2002 |
| The invention concerns a system for automatic following guidance, particularly for heavy-traffic automatic following guidance, of a motor vehicle (1), designed to ease the burden on the driver in heavy-traffic situations both by taking over lateral guidance by means of an automatic s |
| 6272420 |
Method and device for detecting motor vehicle tilt |
August 7, 2001 |
| A method and an apparatus relate to the detection of a tilt tendency of a vehicle about a vehicle axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. For this purpose, for at least one wheel, a variable describing the wheel rotation speed and at least one variable representing th |
| 6219604 |
Steer-by-wire steering system for motorized vehicles |
April 17, 2001 |
| A steer-by-wire steering system comprised of an electronically regulated steering positioner mounted to the steering gear of the front axle or to both front wheels of a vehicle together with an electronic steering regulator and a feedback actuator. A sensor senses the driver's selected |
| 6154688 |
Method and arrangement for controlling a vehicle |
November 28, 2000 |
| The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for controlling a motor vehicle. Several components are arranged in a command hierarchy and the commands for the components flow only from a higher abstraction level into a lower abstraction level and from a higher hierarchial leve |
| 6092006 |
Hierarchy system for controlling a vehicle |
July 18, 2000 |
| A control system for a motor vehicle has several components for carrying out different tasks to control the vehicle. The data, which are necessary from the components, are acquired independently by the components either via data interrogation or via request relationships. |
| 5991669 |
Method and arrangement for controlling a vehicle |
November 23, 1999 |
| A method and an arrangement for controlling a vehicle includes at least one source for at least one resource and at least one consumer which consumes the resource. At least one coordinator is provided which allocates the resource to the consumer in dependence upon the capacity of the sou |
| 5727855 |
Anti-locking control system |
March 17, 1998 |
| An anti-locking control system is described in which the by electrical interference in the range of the mains frequency of conventional power supplies are detected and eliminated. To that end, in the range of critical speeds, a new reference vehicle speed is formed from the ascertain |
| 5277482 |
Antilock braking system |
January 11, 1994 |
| A reference speed signal approximating the vehicle speed is generated from the wheel speed signals. Wheel slippage signals are generated from the wheel speed signals and the reference speed signal, and used to produce control signals for brake pressure control devices at the wheels. The |
| 5262951 |
Anti-lock braking system |
November 16, 1993 |
| An ABS is described in which the wheel slip is used. For this purpose, a reference signal is required, the gradient of which is obtained from an auxiliary reference signal. In order to achieve an even better matching of the reference to the vehicle speed, the gradient is made dependent o |
| 5249852 |
Anti-locking control system |
October 5, 1993 |
| An anti-lock brake system is described in which, when an instability limit IS is exceeded by an instability criterion K(where a, b, c and d are constants and B is the relative wheel deceleration, L is the wheel slip and IL is the integral of the wheel slip and V.sub.F is the calculated v |
| 5184876 |
Anti lock braking system |
February 9, 1993 |
| The reference speed required for slip development is formed by using an auxiliary reference which specifies the reference slope during a sudden drop in wheel speed. In other circumstances, the speed of the second fastest wheel is included in the forming of a reference during the control |
